CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
New perovskite solar cell research is ready to hit the market and when it does, solar energy will bury coal and natural gas in an avalanche of clean power.
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
The results show an overwhelming interest in the products and an underwhelming satisfaction.
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GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
This article was adapted from the GreenBiz Food Weekly newsletter. Sign up here to receive your own free subscription.This week, I want to talk about one of the most exciting options we have for reforming our food systems and tackling climate change: regenerative agriculture.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
The Lowry Hotel in Manchester is among the first in the UK to sign up to a new toiletries recycling scheme. Clean the World, a global leader in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and sustainability, recycles discarded soap and empty toiletry bottles from hotel rooms and distribute them to those in need, preventing millions of hygiene-related illnesses and deaths every year.
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Ten years ago, Siemens Wind Power, as it was then known, started playing around with a concept for a thermal energy storage system. Last year, the wind turbine manufacturer now known as Siemens Gamesa plugged a 30-megawatt/130-megawatt-hour demonstration system into the grid at Hamburg harbor. By next year, it could be breathing new life into coal power plants that are currently scheduled for a date with a wrecking ball.
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Working directly with the nature-loving homeowners, the architects strategically focused on blending the minimalist home, which was built with natural materials, into the idyllic surroundings while reducing its impact as much as possible.
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Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a Russian spaceport located in Mirny: Plans being advanced to build a number of satellite launch sites in the UK are proceeding without due consideration for emissions of climate-warming gases and other impacts, according to the data collected by Stay in Cornwall. The black carbon emitted by rocket launches has a climate warming impact of up to 1,500 times stronger than CO2 per unit of mass, new research shows.
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Google spinout Dandelion Energy wants to push home geothermal heating to new heights in 2020. The company, which emerged from the X "Moonshot Factory" in 2017, has grown to around 100 employees and installed hundreds of sites in New York state. It continues to refine its drilling technology to make residential drilling and heat pump installation easier and more competitive with incumbent fossil fuels.
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
In a bid to revolutionize agriculture, New York City and Bergen-based innovation studio Framlab has proposed Glasir, a community-based system for urban farming that combines the flexibility of modularity with aeroponics to vastly reduce the environmental footprint for growing food.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
With companies’ environmental, social and governance initiatives largely focused on mitigation and adaptation, the lines are blurring between corporate sustainability and philanthropy.
Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium
With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
The “Innovation Wagon” at a previous OWL Roadshow. An initiative with a brief to help drive up safety and compliance standards in the transport sector (including in relation to air quality and emissions from vehicles) is returning to Scotland in March. The OWL (Optimised Waste & Logistics) Roadshow is offering “a thought-provoking programme” that the organisers say delivers practical solutions for the air quality crisis, as well as new intelligence about electric RCV
Fairsnape
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
The Ego Eco Seva thinking that many will have heard me talk & present on was developed from FutuREstorative and through COSTRestore. The Ego Eco phases are somewhat self explanatory, and Seva, taken from Sanskrit ‘serving others without reward’ is used as ‘doing the right thing because we are part of nature, not apart from’ This week I came across a brilliant Medium post from Ed Gillespie “ The End of ‘Saving the World’ ?
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Today’s axolotls are experiencing extirpation, but scientists and pet enthusiasts are saving them from true extinction. Why?
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
The U.S. appetite for renewable energy is creating opportunity across the Lone Star state in places such as Brownsville, Houston, Corpus Christi and Galveston.
Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor
With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Appointments of new COP26 President and Environment Secretary triggers renewed efforts to demonstrate the benefits of biogas for decarbonising the UK and global economies. Anaerobic digestion and biogas can deliver a 6% reduction in UK annual greenhouse gas emissions within the next decade, 30% of the UK’s legally binding carbon budget for 2030. The industry can also help reduce the carbon footprint of hard-to-decarbonise sectors such as heat, transport, waste management and agriculture.
Green Business Bureau
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Recycling our waste has become an expected practice across multiple industries with those not participating in the practice severely damaging their company image and reputation. In addition to periodically evaluating our operations to increase efficiency and reduce waste, we must not also forget that in our effort to get to the ultimate goal of going zero waste, some of waste streams can, when structured properly, develop into new revenue streams.
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
The cute little "frog" campers have everything you need to enjoy a minimalist outdoor excursion.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Tracking technologies could provide information throughout a product's journey, from the start all the way through to its use at the consumer level, and ultimately to its disposal or reuse in the future.
Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute
The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
HERU founder Nik Spencer with the Hybrid Water Heating System. In what seems a major step of recognition for the HERU energy-from-waste domestic heating system – a widely lauded British Greentech innovation – the firm has announced a new partnership with Europe’s largest industrial manufacturing company, Siemens. The partnership will see Siemens support the production phase of the HERU Hybrid Water Heating System through sharing valuable knowledge and best practices currently used wi
Charged
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Scandinavian transport operator Nobina, which services Malmo, Sweden, has ordered 60 of Volvo’s 7900 Electric Articulated electric buses. Propelled by dual electric motors with a two-speed transmission, the buses have a maximum power output of 400 kW and maximum torque of 31 kN-m at the driven axle, with battery capacity have up to 396 kWh of storage capacity.
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
For those social butterflies who believe that getting back to nature doesn't have to mean sacrificing time with friends, Hello Wood has created the beautiful Grand Cabin.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
The airline plans to invest in aircraft renewal, sustainable jet fuel, weight reduction, and CO2 offsetting and sequestration projects.
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Read time: 9 mins A recent German news report has shed light on the inner workings of the Heartland Institute’ s international efforts to sow doubts about climate science using the dark money group Donors Trust. Part of those efforts include the climate science-denying organization touting its newest representative, a young German YouTube “influencer,” Naomi Seibt , whom Heartland markets as the deniers’ answer to breakout youth climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Charged
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Nidec has launched two new models of traction motor systems: a 200 kW model for the D and E segments and a 50 kW model for the A segment. Both models are based on Nidec’s 150 kW E-Axle. Targeting luxury EVs for the European and Chinese markets, the 200 kW model features a motor and gears that increase the power of the system by more than 30 percent.
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
New York City’s award-winning High Line has attracted yet another sculptural building to its side—512 West 22nd Street, a contemporary Chelsea office building that takes cues from the elevated park with landscaped terraces on every floor. Designed by local architecture firm COOKFOX Architects, the new building is inspired by not only its proximity to the High Line, but also the neighborhood’s industrial history.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
If we are to make any significant progress on critical issues such as ending poverty and climate change, as set forth in the Sustainable Development Goals, we will need everyone at the table.
Sunrun
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
How Batteries and Generators Stack up Blackouts are becoming more common across the country1. As people face an increased risk of power loss, it becomes important for consumers who want to take control of their own energy2 to include a home solar battery in a plan to go solar. A solar home battery system, such as Brightbox by Sunrun, avoids many of the pitfalls of traditional portable backup generators.
Solar Power World
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Plane crashes rarely happen, but the fear of an accident is real for many people. Still, thousands of Americans fly every day. The NBC television drama “This is Us” showed that Crock-Pots can cause house fires, but we’re still cooking chilis and roasts while we’re away at work. The threat of energy storage systems causing… The post Just how concerned should the solar industry be about battery fires?
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Downtown San Francisco is putting pedestrians first. Inhabitat spoke with an urban planner at Perkins and Will about the car-free Market Street project.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Around the world, communities are using "Rights of Nature" laws to defend waterways, species and more from human threats.
Forbes Green Tech
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Cities are increasingly at the forefront of the battle against climate change – not only will the issue affect them disproportionately but they can have an outsize impact in tackling it as well.
Solar Power World
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
The 10th annual National Solar Jobs Census was released today by The Solar Foundation, and it shows the U.S. solar industry increased employment 2.3% since 2018, employing nearly 250,000 workers in 2019. The Solar Foundation, a nonprofit educational and research organization, issues the National Solar Jobs Census each year to provide comprehensive and reliable data on… The post National Solar Jobs Census: Solar employment up 2.3% after two years of losses appeared first on Solar Power Worl
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
In the Copenhagen suburb of Brønshøj, local architectural practice NORD Architects has completed the Parish Center, a contemporary community center and place of worship that’s primarily built of cross-laminated timber to reduce the project’s carbon footprint. Selected for its renewable and durable features, cross-laminated timber has also been purposefully left exposed throughout the multifunctional building to lend a sense of welcoming and warmth to the interior.
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